One day this last week I came into work and a co-worker approached me and informed me that a gentleman had approached hime the previous Saturday asking him if he was me... He stated no; at which point the guy stated that he needed to find me as he was their to serve me with papers... He continued to sit their in his car for another 45 minutes... so as of now everyone at work knows that someone is sueing me. Isn't it illegal for them to come to your place of work and start disclosing information to parties not involved?

No

They can not tell people who you owe, and how much, but they may tell people why they are there, they may come in, tell people they are there to serve you papers, it could be divorce papers, law suits, you being sued for money, you being sued for damages.

Best way to stop them coming back is to make arrangements and get served

The process server may not have been able to catch you at home to serve you there so they are taking the more direct approach since they know where you will be for 8 hours. Stands to reason they can catch you there much easier.

And no, it is not illegal for them to do this.

I work at one of the large box stores. I know our policy is that no one can be served on their property. They actually have a corporate phone number for us to call if some tries to serve papers at our establishment. I know they have sued process servers for disruption of worker productivity over serving papers at our company. I don't know if this is a industry wide policy but be careful with certain large retailers.

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Originally Posted by frog love

I work at one of the large box stores. I know our policy is that no one can be served on their property. They actually have a corporate phone number for us to call if some tries to serve papers at our establishment. I know they have sued process servers for disruption of worker productivity over serving papers at our company. I don't know if this is a industry wide policy but be careful with certain large retailers.

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Your employer's "policy" is unenforceable. If someone who is allowed on the premises happens to be a process server and manages to serve an employee there, the employee has been legally served.

And, as far as their suing process servers for "disruption", that's utter nonsense. What are the damages: five seconds for handing papers to a defendant? Someone has been pulling your leg.